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Vinícius Santos
Vinícius Santos

Reputation: 33

How to use macvim (mvim) in terminal after install with homebrew

I installed macvim with homebrew and when i tip "mvim file" in terminal open the file in another window. Can I fix and open mvim in terminal?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2241

Answers (3)

chrisdowney
chrisdowney

Reputation: 1558

We want the contents of the MacVim.app package to be in the PATH, but do this cleanly. So here's what I do:

cd /Applications; ln -s ../usr/local/Cellar/macvim/8.1-151_1/MacVim.app

That gets you MacVim in /Applications, via a symlink that can be updated when the package is upgraded. Then add this to the PATH in the shell startup file:

PATH=/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin:$PATH

Then when you upgrade you just change the symlink in /Applications and everything still works nicely.

Upvotes: 0

Eric Haynes
Eric Haynes

Reputation: 5786

The binary is needed by some plugins (YouCompleteMe), for one.

You can use the binary that is installed with macvim. By default, it's

/usr/local/Cellar/macvim/8.0-144_3/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim

You can simply alias vim to it in your shell config (.bashrc, .zshrc, etc.)

alias vim=/usr/local/Cellar/macvim/8.0-144_3/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim

Upvotes: 1

Joe Constant
Joe Constant

Reputation: 822

MacVim (mvim) is not a terminal application. If you want to open vim in a terminal, just use "vim" instead.

Upvotes: 0

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